Conservation
The treatment of the painting collection is supervised by conservator Norman Muller in the Museum’s conservation studio.
The conservation needs of the departments of Prints and Drawings, Photography, and Ancient and Asian art are performed by private conservators with specialized expertise, working under the guidance of the Museum conservator. Every other year the conservator offers a course on the history of Western painting materials and techniques to undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Art and Archaeology. Interns are accepted periodically from recognized conservation training programs.
Support for conservation projects has been provided through grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the latter two federal agencies. The conservation studio was made possible by a generous gift from the Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Charitable Trust.
Volume 59 (2000) of the Record of the Princeton University Art Museum is devoted to the conservation program at Princeton.
Recapturing the Image is a Web site that describes how Andrea di Bartolo, a fourteenth-century Sienese artist, created his Madonna and Child (ca. 1410-15), which had been the central panel of a dispersed altarpiece.
